We have places for every aspect of our lives

In life we have places for every aspect of our lives. We have a space for our work life, a space for our family life, a space for our intimate life. In the past I had had some sort of trust violated in all aspects of these areas except work until I did work for JAMU. While my immediate family had never violated me, my extended family had. The presence of two children where child support has just started to be paid and only comes in once every three months and at this point may not ever come in after changes in the structure of how men pay in Georgia have come about attest to my lack of success in relationships. And since my blog is my catharsis let me speak towards one of those relationships.

I had asked the noncustodial parent not to allow my son to ride on the highway and that my son had started to pretend like he was a drunk after visits to his house and when my son came over could he try to observe him a little more. Instead of saying okay cool. He started to demonstrate a really negative attitude towards me. Now this is the man who has four children and all of them have different mothers. He started to say he was different then me, he led a different lifestyle then me and was really awful towards me. I told him well you owe me an apology for not supporting your child for years and actually using me I was twenty he was forty. I found a place for him to stay , drove him to interviews, etc. To my expense of eventually dropping oput of college pregnant. At which point he left and never supported me or my child. All of these years I thought he was in California he was fifteen minutes away. I had not mentioned any of this until he started to get mad and call me names because I asked him not to allow my child to ride on a major street and to please control his exposures regarding drinking. At that point I told him he owed me an apology and he said he would never apologize. At some point I spoke to his wife and he had married the woman I had given him an ultimatum to stop seeing or I never wanted to see him again. I had actually ended the relationship and he slept outside of my door pleading with me to get back with him. Anyway he ended up marrying her and had never stopped seeing her. So I eventually brought up the topic that while I was in school he had used my car to go see this woman, at the point that I brought this up, I was on the speaker phone with the two and they both laughed at the fact that he used my car while I was in school to go and see this woman. This will always be with me that I could be used so badly and not be apologized too. His wife said he'll never apologize to you and he does not have too, all women have had bad relationships etc. All men treat women badly at some point. When she said this I made the decision that these people were enot appropriate role models for my son and really did not want then around him anymore because I try in my very being to teach my son to respect women, not to use them, and to be good to them. I do not want my child to be taught it is appropriate to use women.

Anyway maybe I am on a tangent, but I would like to add that we all have spaces. I can honestly say that up to the point of doing work for JAMU my work space had never been violated. I had done work for small business owners who were in the process of getting evicted from their houses but they all paid me and their credentials were woefully less then JAMU's. I know that he has listed or read the book rich dad poor dad. I think that he thinks the book gives him permission to find gullible people to go and work for him and for them not to be paid. At the same time that JAMU had not paid me there was someone on craigs list going around getting people to do work on websites and not paying them I think that he was this person.

Forgot to tell JAM did send me a check for fifty dollars that he said not to cash

JAMU sent a check to me for fifty dollars I took it to the bank to try to cash it and because it appeared to be a counter check the bank would not let it be deposited. I called to tell him this and he said a church member would bring me the money on Saturday. This never happened. On Monday of the following week I told him I would take it to his bank he said that he had gone away for the weekend and there was no money in the account and not to cash the check but to tear it up and he would send cash through the mail. He never did this. This was in early summer. I am very disappointed that I have not been paid. I have watched James spend over a hundred dollars at a store front sushi bar. I have watched him spend over 100 dollars in liquor drinks until he's tipsy. James has the money but he refuses to pay.

He did not pay his cousin either when I asked him why his cousin had not been paid for a quarters worth of editing she had done he said the dotcom business he had worked for had gone out of business and they had not paid her. I asked him well did you get paid and he said yes. His justification for not paying is that dot com businesses he has worked for have gone out of business and not paid him so its cyclical and you have to deal with it. I have spoken to several people who have worked for dot com businesses that have gone out of business and they said that they were always paid.

JAMU I Owe You Money for Doing Work for Me Recording

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Google shares zoom to record / Many analysts now expect stock to hit $445 in next year

Catharsis

As we look back on life there are things that we’ve done that we most regret and people that have taken advantage of us that we regret that we let it happen. Well I am one of those individuals. Last Christmas Holiday while placing a personal ad seeking a long term relationship I met someone lets call him JAMU. He wrote me a note stating that he was a single father with two children, had two successful businesses and had the words “if I do say so myself” behind his profession. This was a Sunday email and he wanted to meet immediately. I was not too keen on meeting him at all because he sounded like he liked men. However he begged and he begged for an immediate date and I said OK. I had children also so I could do a late night date. When he arrived I was pleasantly surprised because he did not look gay at all. As an African American person his voice sounded like he would be a lighter black with a big butt and sort of chubby be he tall or short. What I got was a tall dark slim man. I was attracted to him. So we proceeded on our date. We went to see the lights at centennial park and I thought how cool, we hugged and I thought how soft his sweater felt, anyway he asked me where I wanted to go and I thought about a little place in Midtown that is some sort of cult café that everyone must go to once but I thought OK he looks like he would absolutely hate it because honestly after the first time I went to this 24 hour hell with a friend. I never went back but every time I passed it, I always had a good feeling that yes I had been there, I was a member of some special crowd just like I feel because I ate at the Old Paschals twice “the place where the famous civil rights giants would meet during the sixties” . Anyway instead of bathing this person into this new cult I said OK you decide and he decided on Café Intermezzo which usually bored me to death, I preferred a coffee place further downtown that was two stories and shabby and “funky” but this evening I liked Café Intermezzo with the background sounds of Cirque Du Soleil playing. He told me that he had a successful business, had designed several of the posters and floats for the Olympics in Atlanta, his ex wife had been the architect for the Georgia Dome ,[ which really impressed me because I remember one day looking at the dome after it had been built and having an old homeless man walk up to me excitedly and say, “That DOME was built by a “black Woman a BLACK WOMAN”] “WOW I SAID” he went on to say that he had been an album cover designer for Toni Braxton, and had been one of Shirley’s Boys whatever that meant, and again he had a successful business. At this point he asked do you want to see my house, this should have been a red flag for me for I had met another individual in the parking lot of my local supermarket who had run up to me and said “Hi I was nominated for a Grammy would you come over my house”, of course I said no but we exchanged phone numbers and I eventually said yes because I wanted to see the house but I was very very disappointed. I know this man’s real name but I think he has to go by another name because I have since seen him in a very successful video but at the time I was feeling no attraction to his demands at all, or honestly him, we were friends for months but he eventually ended up literally cursing me out because I would not have sex with him. Anyway back to JAMU he said did I want to see his house, he said house ya’ll. He said he lived in Buckhead so I expected a Buckhead mansion. I was sort of disappointed to drive up to his three story town home but anyway it was a nice place just not what I expected. He gave me the tour and I can’t remember where we settled but we eventually kissed and it was really nice , he wanted more but I eventually told him that I had a rule no sex before marriage because well because I had been treated very badly in the past. For some reason this year had been a good year for dating I was dating an engineer that I had met while waling down the street who was surveying the land and we exchanged phone numbers who understood no sex before marriage that I had not even kissed who wanted to get married and an IT person who wanted to live together that I had not even kissed either. However I liked kissing this guy, but I was not going to have sex with him. So he was cool about it though he kept begging and begging and begging eventually after several dates I would sleep with him, and be told that he was separated from his white wife which when I did the math as to when he had claimed to have met her and when he had claimed to be married to his black wife, it seemed like that it had been some overlap there. I immediately felt distrust for him and ended up thinking that his shenanigans with this white woman is what eventually would leave his black wife paralyzed and unable to work... During the Nichols affair I learned that he was an acquaintance of Brian Nichols and they went to the same gym.

Anyway in the midst of all of this he asked me if I could do some work for him basically pre-prep work for a website he was doing for his cousin. He said that his cousin had done some editing for him while he worked for a dotcom and after she had done all of the work it had gone bust and she had never gotten paid. He told me that her husband needed a website and he would pay me at the end of the month. So I did all of the prepare work for the site which since he told his cousin he was doing all of the work at a discount. His cousin sent him a check for 1500.00 based on my creating and putting documents into pdf format, creating an ad format for placing ads and pricing them, finding a domain, and doing extensive research into the proper methods of doing an online newspaper. This man never paid me. I charged him three-hundred dollars and he never paid me. He told me that he had used the money to pay the rent and had lied he did not have a business and had lost his job as a creative director for AOL. At this point I just wanted to get paid which to this day I never have gotten paid for. For several weeks I received emails from his cousin looking for him, I said I did not know where to find him and that he had not paid me. At this point all I wanted was to be paid. This man had even asked me to do more work but I had refused because I had not been paid. At some point I will be posting a recording where he apologizes for not paying me, but says that he will. I have told him over and over that I would blog this if he did not pay me. It has been ten months and I am still awaiting payment. My usual policy before doing work for anyway is to get paid half up front, and no it was not the relationship that blinded me, it was the story of success that he painted to me that caused me to do work for him, I would have done the work upfront without payment even without the personal relationship because I believed in his success story. This event has caused me to not trust anyone because the accolades were there the success story was there and he knew that I had two children that I needed to support and he took advantage of me so badly. All he had to do is pay me. I have called and explained to him that this incident has set my Karma off balance. Prior to meeting him success was flying my way and I was on a straight path however after this experience every experience that I have had in every aspect of my life has been negative. Webgrrls, relationships with friends, my health, my weight, and my personal appearance. After this experience I was left clueless about anyone and anything.

This has been my cathartic release. Hopefully I will be the woman I once was. Live recordings coming soon.

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Learning to love Big Brother / George W. Bush channels George Orwell

Learning to love Big Brother / George W. Bush channels George Orwell: "Learning to love Big Brother
George W. Bush channels George Orwell
- Daniel Kurtzman
Sunday, July 28, 2002

Learning to love Big Brother
George W. Bush channels George Orwell
- Daniel Kurtzman
Sunday, July 28, 2002


Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?

As President Bush wages his war against terrorism and moves to create a huge homeland security apparatus, he appears to be borrowing heavily, if not ripping off ideas outright, from George Orwell. The work in question is "1984, " the prophetic novel about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering history to suit its needs. It was intended to be read as a warning about the evils of totalitarianism -- not a how-to manual.

Granted, we're a long way from resembling the kind of authoritarian state Orwell depicted, but some of the similarities are starting to get a bit eerie.


PERMANENT WAR
In "1984," the state remained perpetually at war against a vague and ever- changing enemy. The war took place largely in the abstract, but it served as a convenient vehicle to fuel hatred, nurture fear and justify the regime's autocratic practices.

Bush's war against terrorism has become almost as amorphous. Although we are told the president's resolve is steady and the mission clear, we seem to know less and less about the enemy we are fighting. What began as a war against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda quickly morphed into a war against Afghanistan, followed by dire warnings about an "Axis of Evil," the targeting of terrorists in some 50 to 60 countries, and now the beginnings of a major campaign against Iraq. Exactly what will constitute success in this war remains unclear, but the one thing the Bush administration has made certain is that the war will continue "indefinitely."


MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Serving as the propaganda arm of the ruling party in "1984," the Ministry of Truth not only spread lies to suit its strategic goals, but constantly rewrote and falsified history. It is a practice that has become increasingly commonplace in the Bush White House, where presidential transcripts are routinely sanitized to remove the president's gaffes, accounts of intelligence warnings prior to Sept. 11 get spottier with each retelling, and the facts surrounding Bush's past financial dealings are subject to continual revision.

The Bush administration has been surprisingly up front about its intentions of propagating falsehoods. In February, for example, the Pentagon announced a plan to create an Office of Strategic Influence to provide false news and information abroad to help manipulate public opinion and further its military objectives. Following a public outcry, the Pentagon said it would close the office -- news that would have sounded more convincing had it not come from a place that just announced it was planning to spread misinformation.


INFALLIBLE LEADER
An omnipresent and all-powerful leader, Big Brother commanded the total, unquestioning support of the people. He was both adored and feared, and no one dared speak out against him, lest they be met by the wrath of the state.

President Bush may not be as menacing a figure, but he has hardly concealed his desire for greater powers. Never mind that he has mentioned -- on no fewer than three occasions -- how much easier things would be if he were dictator. By abandoning many of the checks and balances established in the Constitution to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful, Bush has already achieved the greatest expansion of executive powers since Nixon. His approval ratings remain remarkably high, and his minions have worked hard to cultivate an image of infallibility. Nowhere was that more apparent than during a recent commencement address Bush gave at Ohio State, where students were threatened with arrest and expulsion if they protested the speech. They were ordered to give him a "thunderous ovation," and they did.


BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
The ever-watchful eye of Big Brother kept constant tabs on the citizens of Orwell's totalitarian state, using two-way telescreens to monitor people's every move while simultaneously broadcasting party propaganda.

While that technology may not have arrived yet, public video surveillance has become all the rage in law enforcement, with cameras being deployed everywhere from sporting events to public beaches. The Bush administration has also announced plans to recruit millions of Americans to form a corps of citizen spies who will serve as "extra eyes and ears for law enforcement," reporting any suspicious activity as part of a program dubbed Operation TIPS --

Terrorism Information and Prevention System.

And thanks to the hastily passed USA Patriot Act, the Justice Department has sweeping new powers to monitor phone conversations, Internet usage, business transactions and library reading records. Best of all, law enforcement need not be burdened any longer with such inconveniences as probable cause.


THOUGHT POLICE
Charged with eradicating dissent and ferreting out resistance, the ever- present Thought Police described in "1984" carefully monitored all unorthodox or potentially subversive thoughts. The Bush administration is not prosecuting thought crime yet, but members have been quick to question the patriotism of anyone who dares criticize their handling of the war on terrorism or homeland defense. Take, for example, the way Attorney General John Ashcroft answered critics of his anti-terrorism measures, saying that opponents of the administration "only aid terrorists" and "give ammunition to America's enemies. "

Even more ominous was the stern warning White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer sent to Americans after Bill Maher, host of the now defunct "Politically Incorrect," called past U.S. military actions "cowardly." Said Fleischer, "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is."

What would it take to turn America into the kind of society that Orwell warned about, a society that envisions war as peace, freedom as slavery and ignorance as strength? Would it happen overnight, or would it involve a gradual erosion of freedoms with the people's consent?

Because we are a nation at war -- as we are constantly reminded -- most Americans say they are willing to sacrifice many of our freedoms in return for the promise of greater security. We have been asked to put our blind faith in government and most of us have done so with patriotic fervor. But when the government abuses that trust and begins to stamp out the freedom of dissent that is the hallmark of a democratic society, can there be any turning back?

So powerful was the state's control over people's minds in "1984" that, eventually, everyone came to love Big Brother. Perhaps in time we all will, too.

Daniel Kurtzman is a San Francisco writer and former Washington political correspondent.

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Blogging for my son Follow up

Honestly I am too weary to blog anything about anything. The principal scheduled me to do a workshop about blogging and I told her clearly that I would not be able to be there in the following letter.

Dear #########:

Before I can make a decision as to whether to work on this project with you for your school there are several things that have to be taken into consideration. First of all, when I volunteered to facilitate blogging in my child's class I had no intention of facilitating it for the whole school or putting in a permanent content management system in my child's teacherÂ’s class that could be used for her students the following year.

My intention was to introduce the children of my son's classroom to blogging, a simple brief introduction which may have ended after the social studies fair and if ##########had decided to continue on with it after this it would have been under her facilitation. I was looking forward to assisting the children choose topics to blog on such as, writing and posting an article on Open Source Software and asking them to post their thoughts on why someone would want to work for free and did they think it was fair etc. Asking them to read Tupac Shakurs Poem about the Concrete Rose and asking them to post their thoughts on it, Reading Langston Hughes I've Known Rivers and asking them to post their thoughts on it. This was not an attempt to just introduce a content management program to the school or classroom. This was my attempt to 1. Allow the children to work their thoughts out for their social studies projects and 2. Expose them to the extensive knowledge that I have in two areas Information Technology and African American Culture. I particularly wanted to expose them to African American cultural figures due to the violence my son had experienced in route to school.

To repeat myself my intention when volunteering in my child’s classroom was not to assist in implementing a school wide content management system which a school wide blogging program would be. The technical requirements for a recurring blogging system for each school year are vastly different then for a project done with eighteen students. If you notice most of the links that I posted on the quick reference blog I created http://bloggingresourcesforchildren.blogspot.com/ were blogs created by individual teachers not whole schools. The desire for a blog for a whole school requires software to be uploaded to the school server to handle the intensive needs of multiple blogs. There are plenty of open source content management systems available if your server has the proper languages installed on it which are generally php and mysql.

Finally if your content needs do not require any adjustments it will be free from an open source point of view, however if you require adjustments to the existing program most likely you will have to pay a coder to make these adjustments. I know how to install php programs but I am not particularly experienced in programming php. I program in the following languages CGI/PERL, COLDFUSION, JavaScript, SQL, XHTML, CSS, and very limited JAVA.

Unfortunately I can not meet with you on Friday October 14, 2005. I have a prior appointment.

Sincerely,

She responded with the following:

Thank you for your response. Yes, we do want you to introduce blogging to your son's class, as of now.The other teachers were invited so that they can learn more about theprocess. Yes, a simple brief introduction is fine. Yes, as of now we want to limit it to the Social Studies projects. However, I have spoken to several teachers on the staffand they have some knowledge of blogging. They want to learn more about it. All activities related to blogging have to be related to the Quality CoreCurriculum or to the Georgia Performance Standards. I believe we can work the standards and the QCCs into this project. Again, I realize it is not just an attempt to introduce a content management program to the class. We must work through the instructional dept. to make sure we are within the realm of the standards and the QCCs. Selected poetry and other writings must be appropriate for the students inthe 4th grade.Yes, I realize that your intentions were not to implement the project forthe entire school. What day and time can you meet with us so we can follow up with this request? Mrs. Shelton from Information Systems is looking forward toworking with us to implement this in your child's class.

Please give me a call at ######## so we can fine tune the date and time. Give me a call around 7:15 a.m. or later. I look forward to your call.

"I never called becuase I did not have a date to give her."

Why did she have teachers and students in my son's classroom awaiting a blogging workshop that I clearly stated I would not be able to give yesterday becuase I had a prior appointment. She called me yesterday morning stating she understood that I would not be there becuase I was in a bad car accident and would not be there, but I never agreed to be there in the first place regardless of the accident. I write to this blog becuase I feel voiceless. I feel that my reputation has been put on the line to be responsible for something that I never agreed to be responsible for and instead of pulling my hair out in anxiety I blog.

An FBI Story

Several years ago I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about a man who literally had his life destroyed by the FBI. It was about a man who was suing the Federal government for various reasons defamation of character, conspiracy, and some other charges. The case of this man was that the FBI was actively going around and saying things that were not true about him to the point of destroying his multi million dollar business. They would do such things as call the bank and tell them they suspected him of some crime and would the bank say certain things to him for them. They contacted all of his business colleagues and explained to them that they were investigating him and would they say the things they were told to say by the FBI. All of these entities and people agreed to play by the rules of the FBI. Unfortunates the FBI did take him to court but he was found not guilty of whatever charges they were charging him with. However his business was in shambles and he could not regroup, most likely mentally and emotionally also because all of the time that he was going about his business thinking that he was doing the best that he could do to bring himself forward the FBI had infiltrated his life and he probably felt that he could trust no one.

I have had a brush with the FBI. While a student at Fisk University my book bag was stolen from me as I rode the bus to class. It was not hard to figure out who did it because the bus had not stopped since I had last looked at my bag so when it stopped at the final destination the center of Nashville, I did not see anyone with my book bag. I did see a tall dirty blonde man with a duffel bag that appeared to be about my height, I am 5'3 to give you an idea of how big this bag was. The strange thing is his bag was so big and he was so tall I had noted where he had gotten on at. Anyway as I saw him walk off the bus I figured my book bag had found it's way into his tall duffel bag at this point I don't remember how I could have let this happen but I did. Anyway at least a month or two went by and I heard on my message center that the FBI had called me evidently my belongings had been found with this man's things or in his foot locker. I was able to describe him verbatim and also knew where he had gotten on the bus, since I was flying to Atlanta in two weeks for good I suppose I never heard anything else from the FBI agent. However I often wonder after reading the FBI article if the FBI is ever behind my back spreading nasty rumors about me too. Not likely but a little bit of skepticism is healthy. Especially since I am about to embark on a job hunt and I hope the FBI is not following me around trying to prevent me from being able to support my family like they were evidently trying to do to this man. I often wonder if the taking of my bookbag was just an excuse to briefly investigate me, I don't know.

I do know that rumors abound about me. Either there are people who really dislike me to the point of obsession and stalking or something or something very strange is going on in my life.

Why I Initially Decided to do a Workshop with my Sons Class

Another reason I decided to give a blogging workshop to the students is because I had grave concerns about what was going on in the classroom.  My son would come home to me with all of these horror stories.  He was saying he  was getting beat in the head and I just brushed him off until he got a haircut and he had multiple contusions on his head which the emergency room verified as contusions.  Yesterday he said someone brought a firecracker into the room and he claimed that the teacher blamed him initially because someone said that the boy who looked like the chipmunk did it   All of these events before I volunteered to do the blogging activity and after I volunteered to do the blogging activity with the children led me to believe that it was necessary that I see what type of environment my son was in.

I am extremely shy and going to talk to a bunch of anyone is not my cup of tea.   When I discussed my concerns with my mother regarding my son and this new school she had suggested to me that I just go to the class everyday and just stay there until I could figure out what was going on.  Personally I felt that would have been a little intrusive to just walk into someone’s class and stay there all day so I suggested a blogging workshop, a serious blog for recording most especially the students progress on their social studies projects.  This was something that I thought would beneficial and useful to the children as well as give me an opportunity to figure out what was going on in my sons class.  I suppose I’m going to have to do what my mother told me to do and just go over there and sit in the class for several periods.   I don’t like this, I am from the error where teams of people would come into the classroom and observe my teachers, and my mother is from the error where she taught in that environment.  As a child the strange people in the class, even one, always felt weird to me.  I wanted to do something where I would not just be someone sitting down watching the class.  

The hardest part of preparing the blogging workshop for students

The most time consuming activity for the blog workshop was the creation of email addresses and blog addresses for eighteen children. I woke up this morning without a voice and dizzy but I knew that I had to honor my commitment so I completed working on this project. I am releasing this information because it will not be used, I suppose I should go in and delete all of the information but right now I won't, but I will delete every account just by the virtue of the fact that I am publishing this information, it can not be used by me again. I had prepared the chart for the teacher so that she could have some administrative control over the blogs but evidently this did not work out and I am through with it.

Blogging cancelled

Every time I do something it seems not to work out. The kids at my son’s school according to him are so mean and out of control. In order to do something to try to smooth the way for him at what I thought was a magnet school I was sending him to but which turned out to be a place where children are constantly beating up on each other and the principal wants to say that the children who identify the behavior are lying and let the behavior continue, this is one of those schools where it is advised that children carry clear book bags. I was tricked by the school system into thinking that this was a computer magnet and what it was was an attempt to make a bad school good. My daughter also attends a magnet and her magnet is right on target she takes special classes related to the arts. In this school all of his specials are what they would be in a normal school, there are no computer literacy classes, beginning programming classes etc. that you would expect a computer magnet to have. As I said I feel as if I was tricked, unfortunately it did not and has not worked out. To add aggravation to injury the principal has hired an inordianate amount of teachers with dreadloacks, I can understand the principal with dreadlocks but a whole school full of dreadlocked individuals sends the wrong message to me. I am not discriminating, my sons doctor has dreadlocks and he is a wonderful doctor, but a whole school full of dreadlocks makes me think they are smoking weed in the bathrooms or the reason the schools is so out of control is becuase the principal is a drug addict.

Well anyway I spoke to the teacher about a month and a half ago about giving a blogging workshop to the students and I have worked hard to put it together. Tomorrow was to be the presentation and I received the following email from the teacher:

Dear Ms. Walker, I received the following e-mail from our principal Ms. Clay: "Let's talk about this, first. Also, we must check with Ms. Fitzgeraldto make sure we can do this.... We want to expose our students to many new techniques, but we must gothrough the proper channels." When Ms. Clay understood that your workshop involved students going out onthe internet, she became concerned that all the proper permissions and consent forms were in place. She asked me if there was a fee for the Blog,and what kind of protection our student information would have. I did nothave the answer to these questions. She really would like to talk to youbefore the workshop. She also said that we need to check with our building computer specialist as to what the county policy is in this area.She was pleased and happy that you are offering this opportunity to ourstudents. However, she feels responsible and need to know more about whatblogging entails.I know you have put a lot of time and thought into you presentation. Thestudents and I are excited about your visit;but we will need to postpone the class until after you can talk with Ms.Clay and Ms. Fitzgerald (who will be gone until next Tuesday.) Next weekbegins IOWA testing. However, they can be available any afternoon(Tu-Fri), and I could join you if you came at French time (1:15 - 1:45

Here is all the work I did in preparation for tomorrow’s presentation. I have set up eighteen emails and blogs for eighteen students and I have been disregarded like a piece of dirt. I am really upset. I was so sick today I can barely talk but I worked on this presentation for my son all day today. Furthermore he had told all of his classmates that I was coming. This is a slap in the face and shows to me why the behavior of the children is so horrible at that school. I will not discuss doing this ever again. As a matter of fact I think I’m through with volunteer work. The work that I did on this is below. I was going to have the children read about and discuss open source software as well as blog upon a poem by Langston Hughes; Finally they were to blog their Social Studies Projects. At this point I am devastated and a message at 5:09 when I am prepared to do a presentation the next day is not good enough for me. The information I prepared is in a separate post.

I would also like to say that my son walked out of the door he was so upset. I thought he was with a relative they walked out at the same time, but they have come back and said that he was not with him. I have to go find him now, this is an addon to my post so the words written after were already written. Every time my son has a standerdized test something devastating happens to him. This has been devastating to tell his classmates that his mother was going to give a workshop on blogging and to cancel it the day before. Maybe black childrenin challenged neighborhoods as the schoo is in would do better if the adults around him were more responsible.

Here is a blog that I had started to record my links, this list is very small because I just started doing it Saturday however I need to transfer all of my bookmarked links to the blog which I might do tonighthttp://bloggingresourcesforchildren.blogspot.com/ .

Finally what does my mother who is an educator say,
Girl they’re going to steal your SHIT, they are going to use it.

Should I be this Upset

Every time I do something it seems not to work out.  The kids at my son’s school according to him are so mean and out of control.  In order to do something to try to smooth the way for him at what I thought was a magnet school I was sending him to but which turned out to be a place where children are constantly beating up on each other ant the principal wants to say that they children are lying at let the behavior continue, this is one of those schools where it is advised that children wear carry clear book bags. I was tricked by the school system into think that this was a computer magnet and what it was was an attempt to make a bad school good. Unfortunately it did not and has not worked out.  Well anyway I spoke to the teacher about a month and a half ago about giving a blogging workshop to the students and Ihave worked hard to put it together.  Tomorrow was to be the presentation and I received the following email from the teacher:

Dear Ms. Walker,     I received the following e-mail from our principal Ms. Clay:         "Let's talk about this, first.  Also, we must check with Ms. Fitzgeraldto make sure we can do this....         We want to expose our students to many new techniques, but we must gothrough the proper channels." When Ms. Clay understood that your workshop involved students going out onthe internet, she became concerned that all the proper permissions and consent forms  were in place. She asked me if there was a fee for the Bog,and what kind of protection our student information would have. I did nothave the answer to these questions. She really would like to talk to youbefore the workshop. She also said that we need to check with our buildingcomputer specialist as to what the county policy is in this area.She was pleased and happy that you are offering this opportunity to ourstudents. However, she feels responsible and need to know more about whatblogging entails.I know you have put a lot of time and thought into you presentation. Thestudents and I are excited about your visit;but we will need to postpone the class until after you can talk with Ms.Clay and Ms. Fitzgerald (who will be gone until next Tuesday.)  Next weekbegins IOWA testing. However, they can be available any afternoon(Tu-Fri), and I could join you if you came at French time (1:15 - 1:45)________________________________________Lane S. BurnettClifton Elementary: Grade 4 Magnet3132 Clifton Church Rd. SEAtlanta, Ga. 30316678-874-4445

Here is all the work I did in preparation for tomorrow’s presentation.  I have set up eighteen emails and blogs for eighteen students and I have been disregarded like a piece of dirt.  I am really upset.  I was so sick today I can barely talk but I worked on this presentation for my son all day today.  Furthermore he had told all of his classmates that I was coming.  This is a slap in the face and shows to me why the behavior of the children is so horrible at that school.  I will not discuss doing this ever again.  As a matter of fact I think I’m through with volunteer work.   The work that I did on this is below.  I was going to have the children read about and discuss open source software as well as blog upon a poem by Langston Hughes, Finally they were to blog their Social Studies Projects.  At this point I am devasted and a message at 5:09 when I am prepared to do a presentation the next day is not good enough for me.  The information I prepared is in a separate post.  


Here is a blog that I had started to record my links, this list is very small because I just started doing it Saturday however I need to transfer all of my bookmarked links to the blog which I might do tonighthttp://bloggingresourcesforchildren.blogspot.com/ .  Finally what does my mother who is an educator say,
Girl they’re going to steal your SHIT, they are going to use it.  

Something to Get Excited About

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A Month Without Microsoft Office
Posted by Harry McCrackenMonday, September 05, 2005, 03:37 PM (PST)

Back on August 3rd, I installed the Beta 1 version of Windows Vista on my work desktop. That meant reinstalling all my applications...but I didn't have a copy of Microsoft Office handy. So I installed a beta copy of OpenOffice.org 2.0--the leading open-source office suite--figuring that it could serve as a stopgap.

More than a month later, I'm still using that OpenOffice.org beta to do my everyday work...and it's been a remarkably smooth experience, especially considering that this is a pre-release product running on a pre-release operating system. I've wrangled lots of Word and Excel documents in OpenOffice.org's counterparts (Writer and Calc, respectively), and as far as I can tell, the only tip-off that my colleagues have noticed is that my documents have funny icons rather than the universally-known Office ones. All in all, this is a considerably more polished product than the version of OpenOffice.org I wrote about back in May of last year. There was a time when OpenOffice.org's ancestor, StarOffice, had such a clunky interface that I advised folks to spring for Microsoft Office purely to avoid dealing with StarOffice's idiosyncracies. But times have changed. If you know Word and Excel, you'll take to OpenOffice.org's Writer and Calc without blinking...mostly because OpenOffice.org's apps look and work so much like Microsoft Office's equivalents these days. (My biggest gripe: I'm used to pressing thr Ctrl key and F6 in Microsoft Office to shuttle through open documents; OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to support that keystroke.) I've also been paranoid in the past about third-party suites' ability to truly handle Microsoft file formats without glitches. But so far, Writer and Calc have thrown every document I've thrown at them with panache, including some pretty complex spreadsheets. I thought about all this last week when reports surfaced that Massachusetts is making noise about dumping Microsoft's suite in state-operated offices. Not long ago, that would have sounded really quixotic--well actually, it still sounds a little quixotic, but it also sounds plausible. If all those state workers were armed with copies of OpenOffice.org, I suspect they'd still get their work done. That can't be good news for Bill Gates, and I bet that the next upgrade of Microsoft Office will be built, in part, as a response to the prospect of an Office-compatible, Office-like suite that's free. Note that I'm not making a blanket statement that OpenOffice.org is a workable Microsoft Office replacement in every situation. For one thing, I've barely dipped into such OpenOffice.org apps as Impress (a PowerPoint rival) so far, so I can't render judgment on them. I also haven't really gone off Microsoft Office cold turkey, since I continue to use it on my home desktop and multiple notebooks. And I readily acknowledge that Microsoft's suite has scads of features that OpenOffice.org lacks. (How many of those features are widely used is another matter, but if Microsoft were chiming in at this point, I'm sure it would bring up enterprise-related tools such as InfoPath, and OpenOffice.org's lack of an Outlook competitor.) Still, when PC users ask me if there's any way to avoid having to shell out real money for Microsoft Office (which costs $360 in its standard version), I have a new answer: "There might be--before you spend any money for an office suite, give OpenOffice.org a try. It's certainly worked well for me

He's Just Not That Into You!!! Well now that I see what you've got, maybe I have to reconsider that!

Let me begin by saying that people who make a living by being blunt should be prepared for what they get back.

The author of the book He's Just Not That Into You has made a living by telling women HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU!!!!!!! and blaming women for why they are in bad relationships. Well Honey let me tell you something. You've shown your wife on TV and after seeing her I don't think you make the correct choices for me to listen to you anymore. YOUR WIFE JUST LOOKS LIKE SHE NEEDS A HARNESS. You admitted on a show that you were a nerd. LOOK NERD I'm just not into giving you and OLD OLIVE OIL any more publicity. JOKE FOR THE DAY!!!

Lyrics to Strange Fruit as Sung By Billy Holiday and Nina Simone

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolias,

sweet and fresh,

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather,

for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot,

for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Civil Rights Bombed Bus

Strange Fruit #3

"Conservatives" bomb Church that result in the death of 6 Little Girls

Strange Fruit #2

Strange Fruit #1

Conservative Does not Mean Racist

As I sat watching the PBS special on the sixties, something struck me as very strange. In an attempt to be unbiased PBS had interviewed individuals who had not been supportive of the civil rights movement and women’s rights, such as Pat Buchanan. The most striking and disturbing part of the interviews of these people is that they were referred to as conservatives, or people with more conservative views. Personally I think that lynching of individuals, segregating them, not educating their children, and forcing them to work for pennies a day and burning down individuals’ houses is not conservative. It was and it is criminal.

While the white "conservatives", some Republicans, are looking back at the pre-civil rights days as the good old days, they were not, and any minister or so called God Fearing man who could look back at the times before desegregation was fully implemented as the good old days are not worshiping Christ or the Christ that is written about in the Bible. Images sometimes speak louder then words and as the days go on I will try to upload pictures from that time to show that these individuals were not “conservative” but were crazy psychotics. Lest we not forget picnics at lynchings.

Things that make you go hmm!

I am an ardent watcher of Meet the Press with Tim Russert. There was a commercial done during Today's segment that I feel was quite off the mark. It is some investment companies advertisement about what it does for inner city people. In this segment it has a little girl and her hair just is not groomed very well. I have first hand experience with both types of blacks inner city blacks and middle, upper middle and wealthy blacks and let me tell you from my experience and the way the little girls hair was done the commercial was way off base. As for grooming I still remember my black Freshman college roommate who was from McLean, Virginia. She had never even heard of Pink Oil moisturizer and her hair was the length of my thumb and breaking and brittle and incidentally she used white rain hair spray, but she was well to do. I can never forget the day I went to IHOP and emerged out of the parking lot with a couple hopping out of a Mercedes who's daughter at about nine had tattered old jeans on and a shirt with hair that appeared not to have been combed in several days; who emerged from the parking lot with an obviously single young mother with a daughter about nine too with hair down to her back with a leopard skin dress on with fur around it with stockings, bows, and boots to match. Dare I mention the time I saw this little boy who's hair looked like it had not been cut for five years he had a high AFRO and it was not fashion for he looked very nerdy in a very nice neighborhood. Finally I have to say that I am guilty and have been guilty in the past of trying to find braiders in bad neighborhoods to braid my hair for 25 - 50 dollars becuase the women have amazing skills in beauty and don't charge much. They know how to perm hair like the pros and may never have seen a cosmotology school. This commercial was definitely done by someone unaware of and not cognizant of the truth about black inner city or black poor people. Even while driving through the Rural portions of the deep south Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia I was always amazed at how well groomed the women were. For me personally, a college educated woman, I hold a degree in Political Science, and have extensive programming skills as well as I am COMPTIA INET+ certified with practically a perfect score. I wish that I had the skills that the women I have referred to have, unfortunately I do not but I wish I did, but my daughter will go to school knowing to put grease on her hair, not white rain hair spray.

What's Going On?

I find the characteristics between the obstinate natures of the states that were affected by 911 and Katrina startling as it relates to their voting patterns. Prior to 911 all I seemed to remember hearing is the Republican parties anger that New York Republicans would not be whipped into place and vote for George Bush, they were Republicans but they were not Southern Republicans. I even know one Republican who said he was going to create the Bulls and the Elephant club which essentially meant no bible thumping Republicans allowed. Louisiana, while I have a limited knowledge of their politics obviously chose a democratic governor and if I seem to remember correctly has had a very contentious relationship with the White House concerning it's goods and tariffs. As for Mississippi, Clinton told whoever ran for President this last period and I honestly can't think of his name right now, I see a tall guy with grey hair and know he has a crazy wife but his name eludes me, Bill Clinton told him if he wanted to win go to the Mississippi Delta, while the coast is not the Delta, it serves to warn folks who may think of defecting from the party and not delivering the votes that they will pay the cost. Anyway this has been my little foray into conspiracy theory, I wonder how much Bush is profiting from the inordinately high gas prices, but anyway a foray into conspiracy theory that I just had to explore. Hopefully plausible explanations but not true or likely.

What's Going On Part II

Earlier in the week I wrote that I was afraid of what’s coming from the Republican Party and I would like to emphasize that I am. I think what is scary and enlightening is the boldness by which their racist comments are being made. PBS has been running a series on the sixties and the one characteristic of the ardent racists during that time was their lack of care towards how they were viewed by the world and the all seeing eye of the camera. These individuals by using the type of language they used were saying this is the status quo and this is how it should be. In the fifties and the sixties racists would call blacks niggers on TV as much as they could. The agenda of the Republican party is being revealed by the comments of their leaders. Bill Bennett as former Secretary of Education under President Reagan is a leader and his comments towards blacks reveal how blacks are discussed behind close doors by the power elites of the party. It is difficult to think that this is what has been festering in the Republican party since the eighties when Reagan had two terms followed by Senior Bush’s one term and Baby Bush’s two terms. As I am seeing it right now, For twenty-four of the last thirty-two years. Racist have been plotting against minorities. This is sickening and scary.


Finally as for the democrats, don’t you even have enough power to work towards guaranteeing the integrity of voting in the United States? I think we would all agree that one company should not be processing the ballots. Why can’t their be an open source of the presidential election, many from all over the country , even all over the world working to secure the integrity of all elections worldwide. Finally congress can be over ridden by petitions and referendums, why don’t democrats work towards putting issues such as what companies control the electronic machinery for votes or even if they can to a National referendum. At this period in the United States despite what some would lead you to believe Blacks are not the only ones suffering from the policies of the Republican Party. Look at the prices at the pump and it comes to pass that everyone is. One visit to the civil right s museum in Birmingham Alabama and one will see that the impact of jim crow and segregation did not just hurt blacks but poor whites also. Ultimately what we face is an economic battle for the leaders of the Republican Party are not racist but Greedy individuals that are about money and cronyism at their roots. I will not be voting Republican ever again. I am a Nader supporter but in the absence of anything better I might just stay home cause in the final evaluation the Democratic party is about basically the same thing Money and Power and how to obtain it and they are stepping on anyone they can step on also, I suppose.

White House Criticizes Bennett for Remarks - New York Times

White House Criticizes Bennett for Remarks - New York Times:

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
and MAREK FUCHS
Published: September 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 - The White House distanced itself today from the comments of a prominent Republican who said on a recent radio program that the nation's crime rate could potentially be reduced through aborting blacks.

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William J. Bennett, the former Republican secretary of education, said that the nation's crime rate could potentially be reduced through aborting blacks.
The White House called the comments, made by William J. Bennett, the former Republican secretary of education, off base. The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said that President George W. Bush "believes the comments were not appropriate."

Mr. Bennett has said the remarks were taken out of context, noting that he immediately said such abortions would be "reprehensible."

Mr. Bennett, who served as drug czar for the president's father, came under fire from Democratic Congressional leaders on Thursday for the comments, which were made on a his radio show, "Bill Bennett's Morning in America," earlier this week.

"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," Mr. Bennettsaid in the broadcast. "That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."

In a radio broadcast on Thursday, Mr. Bennett called the criticism of him "ridiculous, stupid, totally without merit."

"I was pointing out that abortion should not be opposed for economic reasons, any more than racism or for that matter slavery or segregation should be supported or opposed for economic reasons," he said. "Immoral policies are wrong because they are wrong, not because of an economic calculation. One could just as easily have said you could abort all children and prevent all crime, to show the absurdity of the proposition."

Mr. Bennett, who was the secretary of education in the Reagan administration and is the author of a best-selling book on morality, said he was referring to a debate in the online magazine Slate that had discussed race in the context of an argument about whether abortions contributed to lowering the crime rate. That debate, involving Steven D. Levitt, an author of the best-seller "Freakonomics," apparently appeared in Slate six years ago.

In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Bennett said critics had distorted his comments by omitting his statement that aborting all black babies would be "morally reprehensible."

"When that is included in the quote, it makes it perfectly clear what my position is," Mr. Bennett said, "They make it seem as if I am supporting such a monstrous idea, which I don't."

The Democratic Congressional leaders, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, both sought to put the remarks in the context of a Republican effort to court African-American voters. Mr. Reid said Mr. Bennett's comments would "feed the fires of racism," and Ms. Pelosi called them "shameful words."

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Washington for this article and Marek Fuchs from New York.

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Tuscaloosa: "Alabama legislator: Katrina was God's wrath on sinful coast

I attributed comments to an alabama legislature, here are the comments.


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September 28. 2005 2:56PM



Alabama legislator: Katrina was God's wrath on sinful coast

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A state senator in Alabama says Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on a sinful part of America.

State Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, wrote in a weekly column for news outlets: "New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness. It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."

Erwin, a former conservative talk-radio host and now a media consultant, wrote the column after a tour of hurricane-wrecked Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., and Bayou La Batre on the Alabama coast.

"Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell?" Erwin wrote. "Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."

The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was flooded by Katrina. Erwin said the Baptists knew they had put themselves on the front lines ministering in a sinful place that could be targeted.

He said he didn't think the hard-hit residents of the low-income lower 9th Ward in New Orleans were singled out for especially harsh punishment but were merely in the way, as were the shrimpers in Bayou La Batre.

William Willimon, bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, said Erwin is "sure no theologian."

"I'm certainly against gambling and its hold on state government in Mississippi, but I expect there is as much sin, of possibly a different order, in Montevallo as on the Gulf Coast. If God punished all of us for our sin, who could stand?" Willimon said.

The bishop said 300 United Methodist clergy from Alabama will be on the Gulf Coast next week to help hurricane victims.

"That seems to me a much more appropriate Christian response than that of the senator," he said.

A member of Shades Mountain Independent Church, Erwin said, "As harsh as it may sound, those hurricanes do say that God is real, and we have to realize sin has consequences."

Erwin isn't alone with that view.

In Birmingham, Samford University professor of divinity Fisher Humphreys said Christians do believe God cares about sin. As to God's control of events, different believers answer the question differently, Humphreys said.

It is obvious that as terrible as the storm was good has flowed from it, Humphreys said.

"Look at the outpouring of compassion," he said.

Summary Of Barbara Bush Comments about New Orleans Flood victims

I never feel comfortable writing about persons comments without proof. I wrote a previous post What's Going on where I attributed comments to Barbara Bush. Here are some of them. I will try to post a link to the whole interview if it is available.
Columns: It's finger-pointing time!: "It's finger-pointing time!
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN, Perspective Editor
Published September 18, 2005



It's finger-pointing time!
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN, Perspective Editor
Published September 18, 2005

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The Blame Game! (with apologies to Shirley Ellis)

Come on everybody!

I say now let's play a game.

I betcha I can lay blame onto anybody's name ...

Brownie!

Brownie, Brownie po' Brownie!

Banana fanna fo frowny

They finally ran you out of towny

You're so clowny -

Brownie!

Where do we even start with our hapless former FEMA director?
It's not just that Michael D. Brown had spent 10 years as commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association before his old college roommate gave him a job in the Bush administration. It's that Brown apparently was a lousy commissioner. He got run out of that job, too.

It's not just that he padded his resume. He padded it by claiming to have served as assistant city manager of Edmond, Okla.

Couldn't President Bush at least have gotten the real assistant city manager of Edmond, Okla., to serve as FEMA director? Brown actually served only as an assistant to the city manager, "more like an intern," an Edmond spokesman told Time.

And it's not just that Brown kept saying really stupid, inaccurate and offensive things - such as claiming not to know that thousands of hurricane evacuees were stranded at the New Orleans convention center, when every American with a TV set had seen them there for a couple of days. It's that he said all those stupid things while staring at the camera like one of the vacant-eyed victims he was supposed to be helping. At least lupine Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff looks like he knows what he's talking about, even when he doesn't.

Brownie will be missed - especially by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who can no longer claim to be only the second most overmatched official in the recovery effort.

Bush!

Bush, Bush - yo, Bush!

Banana fanna faux Bush

We hate to push - there's no rush!

Trouble ya, Dubya? Thanks so much!

Bush!

Sure, the president blew it by dithering for days before and after Katrina hit, but now he seems determined to keep flying back down to the disaster zone over and over until he finally gets the photo op right.

To his credit, Bush finally took responsibility, more than two weeks after Katrina hit, "to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right." Until then, though, he produced more tone-deaf soundbites than Say Wha? could keep up with: "Brownie, you're doin' a heck of a job." "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." "We've got to solve problems. We're problem-solvers."

And when he made his first belated visit to the area, he offered these inspirational words to lift the spirits of one especially hard-hit Mississippi victim of Katrina: "Out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast. ... Out of the rubbles of (U.S. Sen.) Trent Lott's house - the guy lost his entire house! - there's going to be a fantastic house. I look forward to sitting on the porch."

Barbara!

Barbara, Barbara - whoa, Barbara!

Banana fanna - no, Barbara!

Not even crazy Joe Scarborough

Said anything quite so macabre

Barbara!

Actually, MSNBC's Scarborough, the former Republican congressman from Pensacola, has done some uncharacteristically straightforward Katrina reporting that cut through the usual cable blather. Similarly, Fox's Shepard Smith did such a compelling job of documenting the misery and bureaucratic incompetence in New Orleans that the Bush apologists back in Fox's studios were rendered temporarily speechless.

But Barbara Bush apparently didn't get the memo. The former first lady, who accompanied her husband and Bill Clinton to see the bedraggled hurricane evacuees who had been bused to Houston's Astrodome, had these words of empathy for the displaced poor people from New Orleans:

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program Marketplace. "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

You're right, Mrs. Bush. That is sort of scary.

Most people attribute the special bond that has developed between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to their shared understanding of the lonely burdens of the presidency. I think it may have more to do with their shared understanding of the lonely burdens of each other's marriages.

Cheney!

Cheney, Cheney - so brainy!

Banana fanna no-brainy

He didn't notice it was rainy

Zany!

Cheney!

The vice president was even harder to roust from his vacation than the president was. And once Cheney finally showed up in Gulfport, Miss., 10 days after Katrina hit, he incurred the wrath of Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency-room physician whose home was destroyed in the storm. Blocked from reaching his home by the vice president's entourage, Marble was heard on live television shouting out, "Go ---- yourself, Mr. Cheney" - echoing Cheney's words to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., last year. Marble was briefly handcuffed for his trouble, but not before he became the Patrick Henry of Hurricane Katrina.

Kanye!

Kanye, Kanye bo Banye

Banana fanna fo Fanye ...

Oh, never mind. But no compendium of Katrina quotes would be complete without recounting rapper Kanye West's off-script soliloquy during a nationally televised concert for hurricane relief.
"I hate the way they portray us in the media," West said, as a terrified Mike Myers looked on. "If you see a black family, they say, "They're looting.' See a white family, it says, "They are looking for food.' ...

"We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way ... and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!

"George Bush doesn't care about black people ... "

And then panicked MSNBC president Rick Kaplan cut off West's microphone. But at least the Grammy winner wasn't handcuffed.

Special mention also should go to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which sent out letters criticizing the Bush administration's insensitive handling of the relief effort and soliciting donations to ... the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee!

Committee officials eventually were shamed into promising to send any funds they collected to hurricane relief efforts, but they'd already revealed their real priorities.

It was almost enough to make you think White House press secretary Scott (Scott! Scott! Robot! Banana fanna so squat!) McClellan had a point the other day when he accused - eight times in one press conference - the administration's critics of playing the "Blame Game."

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--{ WEATHER WARS by Scott Stevens }--

http://www.weatherwars.info/katrina.htm
August 30, 2005
Ivan and Katrina
These are both very Russian sounding names. It has been established that the former Soviet Union (fSU) developed and boasted of weather modification technology during the 1960's and 70's with deployment against the United States coming in 1976 with the audible arrival of the woodpecker grid. These weather operations continue to this day.
I have posted this page FAR sooner than I would like to have. I would like to have had the post mortem of Katrina from the National Hurricane Center to work from as well as a little time/distance from the events of this week so that perspective can be maintained. I will continue to update and add to this page in the days ahead.
This nation has not faced an economic crisis like the one that Katrina will spark in the days and months ahead. But that is one of the reasons Katrina was absolutely guided along the path that we all watched. This path has resulted in maximum damage to the energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure and to the psyche of those that remain susceptible to further storms this year and in the years to follow. Oh New Orleans!
I fully expect one more 'event' this year to impact the United States. My gut feeling is that it will be an earthquake/volcanic event with intensity of at least 7.5 in magnitude resulting in insured losses to exceed $25 billion. Where will happen? My gut says the Western United States.
Protect your family's wealth with precious metals as the cascading effects from this disaster and from poor government fiscal management, which have just begun to be felt worldwide.
My prayers go out to all who need a helping hand in the very difficult times ahead. The amount of social change that this storm has begun to unleash upon the fabric of American socie">--{ WEATHER WARS by Scott Stevens }--: "The Tsunami that was Katrina

August 30, 2005
Ivan and Katrina
These are both very Russian sounding names. It has been established that the former Soviet Union (fSU) developed and boasted of weather modification technology during the 1960's and 70's with deployment against the United States coming in 1976 with the audible arrival of the woodpecker grid. These weather operations continue to this day.
I have posted this page FAR sooner than I would like to have. I would like to have had the post mortem of Katrina from the National Hurricane Center to work from as well as a little time/distance from the events of this week so that perspective can be maintained. I will continue to update and add to this page in the days ahead.
This nation has not faced an economic crisis like the one that Katrina will spark in the days and months ahead. But that is one of the reasons Katrina was absolutely guided along the path that we all watched. This path has resulted in maximum damage to the energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure and to the psyche of those that remain susceptible to further storms this year and in the years to follow. Oh New Orleans!
I fully expect one more 'event' this year to impact the United States. My gut feeling is that it will be an earthquake/volcanic event with intensity of at least 7.5 in magnitude resulting in insured losses to exceed $25 billion. Where will happen? My gut says the Western United States.
Protect your family's wealth with precious metals as the cascading effects from this disaster and from poor government fiscal management, which have just begun to be felt worldwide.
My prayers go out to all who need a helping hand in the very difficult times ahead. The amount of social change that this storm has begun to unleash upon the fabric of American socie"